Dear love,

We've been taught that our bodies are something to manage, improve, hide, shrink, discipline, beautify, and perform. We've been taught to feel shame around our blood, our cycles, our smell, our desire, our hunger, our ageing, our changing bodies, our pleasure, our softness, our rage and our needs.

And we were also taught that we should be se(x)ual… but not too se(x)ual. Desirable, but not too desiring. Attractive, but not too hungry. Available, but not too much. Sensual, but not too powerful. Se(x)ual enough to be wanted, but not so se(x)ual that she belongs to herself.

This creates a split. A woman learns to see herself from the outside before she knows how to feel herself from the inside. She learns how to be pleasing before she knows what is pleasurable. She learns to override discomfort, silence her no, perform her yes, and disconnect from the very body that carries her wisdom.

And for most women, this disconnection is not theoretical. Most women have experienced some form of sexual trauma — whether overt, subtle, relational, cultural, or the quiet micro-traumas of allowing touch, intimacy, or penetration before the body was truly ready. A yes given because it felt easier than saying no, because she didn't want to disappoint someone, because she froze and didn't know in the moment that she was allowed to pause, ask, stop, or change her mind.

These moments don't stay in memory. They settle into the body instead — as numbness, as bracing, as a kind of distance from your own pleasure that's hard to explain to anyone, including yourself. And then somewhere along the way, you're told to be more confident, more sensual, more open — without anyone asking why your body closed the door in the first place, or giving you the tools to open it again.

This is why se(x)uality is not just about sex. It is where so much of our power and agency lives. Our instincts. Our boundaries. Our desire. Our creativity. Our capacity to receive. Our ability to know what is true for us.

When a woman is disconnected from her se(x)uality, she is often disconnected from her life-force. Not because she is broken, but because her body adapted. It protected her. It helped her survive in a world that taught her to distrust, judge, override, and abandon herself.

This work is not about forcing women to become more se(x)ual. It is about creating the conditions for a woman to safely come back into her body, restore trust, listen to her no, feel her yes, and access the wisdom and power that have always lived inside her. First and foremost, for HER.

There is a reason you feel called to hold other women. We've seen again and again that it's what happens when a woman begins to reconnect to her body and feel the immense wellspring of power that lives there. When a woman builds a new relationship with her female body — her pleasure, desire, cycles, sensuality and se(x)uality — she remembers her sovereignty and power. And once she feels that in her own body, she starts to see how many women are still numb, ashamed, performing, overriding, or cut off from their own wisdom. And something in her knows — I am meant to help women come home to this too.

This training is not just about learning practices. It is about becoming the woman who can hold this work with depth, safety, and integrity, and lead from her own embodied wisdom and knowledge.

Yours, Hilary & Tamara

You will be certified to facilitate

• The Jade Temple's 4-Day Pleasure Initiation Retreat (formerly called Yoni Initiation retreat)
• Pusee touch practices (self-massage, mapping, dearmouring & pleasure expansion)
• Jade egg education and guided practices
• Female Anatomy & Pleasure Education workshops (aka "Pusee School")
• Jade Temple Feminine Embodiment classes
• Elevated Women's Circles that can hold depth, connection and transformation
• Somatic safety offerings for trauma healing and nervous system support
• How to sell yoni eggs & wands for added impact and income, including how to hold Pusee Parties to share your work and sell your merch

Plus: trauma-informed facilitation training, cyclical awareness education, business and monetisation guidance, Jade Temple Certification and inclusion in our online teacher database, and the option to teach inside our online membership or our Jade Egg Initiation & Temple of Touch courses.

Ongoing alumni support through the Facilitator's Circle — bi-monthly calls, community space, continued integration and professional support — included for your first year, $300/year after that. Free access to The Jade Temple Online Membership from sign-up until 1 year after the training.

For certification you must attend all required sessions and complete/pass all required practices, practice teaching, and forms within the allotted timeframe. This training certifies you to teach Jade Temple classes & workshops — not to open your own Jade Temple (mentorship for that comes later).